CATHERINE MILLER - Stock Journal
08 Mar, 2010

A 21-MONTH-OLD black Simmental bull, Lancaster Dazzler D141 was the star of the big screen at the Cartledge family's fifth annual on-property bull sale last Friday at Meningie, making the $8000 top price.
The 810-kilogram, May 2008-drop son of GW Lucky Charm impressed many during paddock pre-sale inspections with his power, length and muscle development, and as the opening lot in the video sale, he kicked it off with a bang. |

The successful purchaser was Malcolm Macdonald buying on behalf of Princess Royal Station, Burra, which also bought the $12,000 sale topper in 2009.

"He was a bull and a half - full of muscle, a lot of length and good weight for age," Malcolm said.

"He will put a lot of muscle into his calves."

Dazzler had an eye muscle area figure in the top 1 per cent of the Simmental breed at +5.2 and was double the breed average for intramuscular fat at +0.6.

The sale lacked the bidding intensity of previous years, but produced a very solid 92pc clearance with a $3321 average.

This enabled many commercial Angus breeders to add some muscle and explosive growth to their herds at very realistic rates.

The 10 rising two-year-old purebreds were keenly sought-after in South Australia's only video sale, averaging $4075.

It was the second year Lancaster had offered three-quarter Simmental-Angus and there was a total clearance of these 14 well-muscled, easy doing bulls for a $3250 average.

Twenty-one of the 24 black half-bred Simmentals averaged $2976 and one of the two reds sold for $4000. 



For the second year in a row Malcolm Macdonald bought the $8000 top-price bull at Lancaster for Princess Royal Station, Burra. He is pictured with Spence Dix & Co' s Mark O'Leary and Jono Spence, and Lancaster studmaster Henry Cartledge, Meningie.